In this edition of the XMPP Roundup, we have a lot of software releases: clients, servers, and tools.

Gajim 0.12

Astérix aka Yann Leboulanger has announced on his blog the release of Gajim 0.12. The full changelog since 0.11.4 is loaded with new features: mood, activity, nickname and tunes, encrypted sessions, Kerberos, file transfer over multi-user chat, lots of UI improvements (chat and preference windows, drag'n drop, single window mode, etc.), LaTeX support, and many more.

Tigase Server 4.1

Tigase Server version 4.1 has been released. New features include virtual hosting, server monitoring, and virtual components.

Matthew Wild announced on JDev mailing-list Prosody 0.1.0 (and 0.2.0 followed in less than a month), a new XMPP server, written in Lua, under the GPL license. It aims to be simple, light, and flexible.

The XSF and XMPP community have been quite busy during the final weeks of 2008. We wish to thank everyone for their efforts, advice, and participation in 2008, and we wish all a happy 2009 filled with similar successes.